hotelThe Hotel Inspector · Season 17, Episode 5 · Aired July 14, 2022
The Lamp Post Villa B&B
Bath, England
Open. The rescue stuck and it continues to operate.
What happened after
Victorian townhouse B&B, official site and booking platforms active (Booking.com lists under OYO franchise umbrella).
What happened on the show
Alex Polizzi met a fellow Italian and first-time hotelier, Carmine, in series 17, at the Lamp Post Villa bed and breakfast in central Bath, the historic spa city. A Victorian townhouse B&B run by someone new to the trade fit the show's recurring pattern of enthusiasm outpacing experience, with the added note of a shared heritage between inspector and owner. The episode summary is brief on the specific faults, so the honest frame is verifiable rather than reconstructed: a first-time-run bed and breakfast in central Bath that called in the inspector during her seventeenth series in 2022. Polizzi's task was to bring commercial discipline to a novice running a small townhouse property in a competitive tourist city. That mix of a novice owner and a crowded market made the case a familiar one for the show, even where the episode's finer detail goes unrecorded.
After the cameras left
The Lamp Post Villa is open and trading, a Victorian townhouse bed and breakfast in central Bath, with an active official site and booking platforms as of 2026, including a listing under an OYO franchise umbrella that leaves the property's own Lamp Post Villa branding intact, so it is not treated as a rename. It holds a four out of five and a mid-table specialty-lodging ranking on TripAdvisor, so the open status sits at high confidence. Carmine's first venture appears to have kept going as a going concern in the spa city years after Polizzi's seventeenth-series visit.
Sources
Confidence: high. Last checked 2026-07-19.
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